It is the purpose of this District to provide for the establishment of mobile home parks in the City and to regulate these parks together with the use of mobile homes therein.

(Ord. 22-1972. Passed 8-1-72.)

   Within an R-5 Mobile Home Park District no building, structure or premises shall be used except for one or more of the following uses:

   (a)   Permitted Uses.

      (1)   Mobile home (trailer) in a park only, as permitted and regulated in Section 1167.07.

      (2)   Accessory buildings incidental to the principal uses which do not include any activity conducted as a business. One administrative office shall be permitted in the park in the home of the manager or caretaker.

      (3)   Signs as permitted or regulated in Chapter 1181.

(Ord. 22-1972. Passed 8-1-72.)

   When a person desires to establish a mobile home park he may apply to Council for such purpose by submitting to it an application together with a plot plan prepared by and bearing the seal of an Ohio registered engineer or architect, complete in detail, and showing the following:

   (a)   Location and legal description.

   (b)   Entrance to and exits from the park.

   (c)   Vehicular roadways, driveways and pedestrian walks.

   (d)   Design showing size and arrangement of mobile home lots, units, location of roadways, recreational areas and utility or service buildings.

   (e)   The location of individual parking spaces and off-street visitor parking lots.

   (f)   Topography by two-foot contour intervals.

   (g)   Vegetative screening on and surrounding the park.

   (h)   Provisions for trash and garbage removal.

   (i)   Gas, electric and telephone service connections to each lot.

   (j)   Provisions for lighting of roadways, driveways and pedestrian walks.

   (k)   Water and sewer availability and distribution lines to each lot.

   (l)   Streets adjacent to the park that will handle traffic to and from it including names, location and right-of-way and pavement widths.

   (m)   Watercourses and areas subject to flooding.

(Ord. 22-1972. Passed 8-1-72.)

   The Planning Commission, upon receipt of an application for a mobile home park from Council for review, shall evaluate the application in accordance with the following general standards:

   (a)   A mobile home park shall have access to adequate streets and highways with pavement not less than thirty-six feet wide.

   (b)   Environmental factors involved shall be such that livability in a mobile home park will be pleasant and that there will be no adverse effects on surrounding uses or property values. In considering livability, recognition shall be given to the mobile home park setting, the availability of schools and shopping facilities and the nature of abutting zone districts.

   (c)   A mobile home park shall not be located in an area where it would be completely surrounded by single-family residences or R-1 or R-2 zone districts, nor in an area where the entrance and exits would front on an R-1 or R-2 district.

   (d)   The mobile home park shall be so arranged that all mobile home lots and accessory buildings shall face on interior roadways. Any lots abutting outside dedicated streets shall be separated by a greenbelt buffer consisting of evergreen shrubbery or similar vegetation.

   (e)   A mobile home park of more than 100 mobile home lots shall have more than one entrance and exit to a public street or highway.

(Ord. 22-1972. Passed 8-1-72.)

   No application for a mobile home park shall be approved by the Planning Commission, nor shall a mobile home park be permitted or maintained thereafter, unless it meets the following specifications:

   (a)   Minimum size - fifteen acres.

   (b)   Minimum number of units - twenty-five mobile home units.

   (c)   Minimum width - 300 feet.

   (d)   Minimum front yard setback - fifty feet.

   (e)   Minimum rear yard setback - twenty-five feet.

   (f)   Minimum side yard setback - twenty-five feet.

(Ord. 22-1972. Passed 8-1-72.)

   No application for a mobile home park shall be approved by the Planning Commission, nor shall a mobile home park be permitted or maintained thereafter, unless the mobile home lots and the placement of mobile homes thereon meet the following specific requirements:

   (a)   Minimum area of mobile home lot - 5,000 square feet.

   (b)   Minimum area of mobile home - each mobile home unit shall have a minimum of 500 square feet of living space per family.

   (c)   Maximum building height - twenty-five feet.

   (d)   Minimum lot width at building line - fifty feet.

   (e)   Minimum front yard setback - twenty-five feet.

   (f)   There shall be a minimum of thirty feet clearance between individual mobile homes, both at the sides and rear.

   (g)   No accessory building shall be located closer than six feet to the side and rear lot lines.

(Ord. 22-1972. Passed 8-1-72.)

   No application for a mobile home park shall be approved by the Planning Commission, nor shall a mobile home park be permitted or maintained thereafter, unless it meets the following requirements:

   (a)   The applicant shall have permission, in writing, from the Ohio and Stark County Health Departments, approving the site and park plan and including but not limited to health precautions relating to garbage and trash containers, collection and disposal, rodent and insect control and sanitary and storm sewers.

   (b)   All mobile home lots shall abut upon a public street of not less than thirty-six feet pavement width and sixty feet right-of-way width. On-street parking shall be permitted on one side only.

   (c)   Every mobile home lot shall provide a minimum of two paved automobile parking spaces, and in addition the park operator shall provide a separate visitor parking lot, providing a minimum of one parking space for every two individual mobile home lots. Such parking lot shall conform to all yard requirements and shall be suitably paved to eliminate dust and dirt.

   (d)   All mobile homes shall be parked on and securely attached by means of anchor bolts to a concrete slab, the area of which must conform to the size of the mobile home. The space between the concrete slab and the mobile home shall be enclosed with a concrete masonry wall with mortar joints. There shall be one access opening of fireproof construction in the wall to permit entry to the enclosed space and to provide for ventilation.

   (e)   The wheels and towing hitch shall be removed from each mobile home before anchoring to the concrete slab.

   (f)   All utility installations including electric power lines, telephone lines, gas lines and television lines and service connections therefor, shall be underground.

   (g)   There shall be no exterior television or radio antennas except a community type antenna for the use of all park residents.

   (h)   A safe, usable recreation area shall be conveniently located in every mobile home park and shall not occupy less than ten percent (10%) of the total area of the park.

   (i)   A performance bond or other financial guarantee of 100 percent (100%) of the development cost shall be placed with the Clerk of Council to insure that the landscaping be installed, that the hard surfacing of the private drives and parking areas be installed, and that the surface water drainage be installed, all in conformance with approved plans.

   (j)   Fees for mobile home parks shall be in accordance with Chapter 143.

(Ord. 22-1972. Passed 8-1-72.)